Unity & Division Review

Which statement describes a temporary outcome of military Reconstruction?

• Former Confederate officials were returned to power.

• African Americans, were elected to serve as federal, state and local officials.

• Large numbers of Southern whites migrated to Northern cities.

• The United States became the world's leading military power.

What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To provide aid and education to emancipated slaves.

• To help Confederate states become part of the Union or US again.

• To secure protection of African Americans' voting rights.

• To prevent violence against African Americas in the South.

What was the main difference in issues between President Lincoln and the Radical Republicans?

• whether or not to create the Freedmen's Bureau

• how to expand Union Army control over the South

• whether or not to pass the Thirteenth Amendment

• how to treat the leaders of the former Confederate states

Which development illustrates the effectiveness of the Fifteenth Amendment during the Reconstruction era?

• incidents of racial violence in Southern cities

• Northern voters' anger at Southern states' passage of Black Codes

• the election of the first African American to the US Senate

• an increase in the South's overall literacy rate

Which policy prohibited federal and state officeholders who had fought for or supported the Confederacy from holding federal or state office?

• the Military Reconstruction Act

• the Thirteenth Amendment

• the Tenure of Office Act

• the Fourteenth Amendment

Why were the Radical Republicans in Congress angry at Abraham Lincoln?

• veto of the Wade-Davis Bill

• acceptance of the Anaconda Plan

• choice of Andrew Johnson as a running mate

• reluctance to support the Freedmen's Bureau

Why was the Fourteenth Amendment adopted?

• to extend voting rights to emancipated slaves

• to prohibit laws and policies that protected slavery

• to prevent states from seeding from the Union

• to guarantee the right of states to make their own laws

Which development most undermined enforcement of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• President Johnson's vetoes of Radical Republicans' Reconstruction bills

• President Lincoln's support for the Ten Percent Plan

• the rapid readmission of former Confederate states under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan

• the reduction in programs run by the Freedmen's Bureau during President Johnson's administration

Which statement best describes challenges faced by African Americans in the South immediately after the Civil War?

• Many had not yet attained their freedom from slavery.

• Many lacked education and job skills.

• Many could not decide which candidates to support.

• Many were unable to work on large farms.

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

• It required Northerners to return emancipated slaves to their masters.

• It preserved white supremacy in the South.

• It prevented emancipated slaves from migrating to Northern cities.

• t bought back the institution of slavery.